List of 1858 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1858
Date | Event |
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January 9, 1858 | British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong |
January 14, 1858 | Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris. |
January 25, 1858 | The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional. |
January 30, 1858 | The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. |
February 11, 1858 | Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary occurs in Lourdes, France. |
April 10, 1858 | After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry. |
April 16, 1858 | The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is dissolved. |
June 16, 1858 | Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. |
June 18, 1858 | Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory. |
July 1, 1858 | Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London. |
July 16, 1858 | The last apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France.[6] |
July 29, 1858 | United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty. |
August 2, 1858 | The Government of India Act 1858 replaces Company rule in India with that of the British Raj. |
August 5, 1858 | Cyrus West Field and others complete the first transatlantic telegraph cable after several unsuccessful attempts. It will operate for less than a month. |
August 7, 1858 | The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College. |
August 11, 1858 | The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren. |
August 16, 1858 | U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks. |
August 20, 1858 | Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory. |
August 21, 1858 | The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Ottawa, Illinois. |
September 10, 1858 | George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora. |
November 17, 1858 | Modified Julian Day zero. |
November 17, 1858 | The city of Denver, Colorado is founded. |